Fuerza Nueva

Fuerza Nueva (FN), renamed the Frente Nacional from 1986 to 1993, was a Falangist political party in Spain that existed from 1966 to 1993. The party was founded by Blas Pinar, the son of one of the defenders of the Alcazar fortress during the Spanish Civil War. The party called to the most nostalgic Falangists and those in favor of hardening the repression against non-fascist parties, and the party rejected King Juan Carlos I of Spain's constitutional monarchy. The party's new members were a mixture of Catholic fundamentalists, technocrats, neoliberal youths, fascists, and ultra-nationalists. The Frente Nacional, as it was called after 1986, failed to gain representation in the government, despite aid from the National Front of France and the Italian Social Movement. In 1992, Jean-Marie Le Pen cut off support to the group due to its failure to gain representation in Spanish politics, and it dissolved in 1993.